EPISODE 25: The Woman in the Well PT 1
In this week’s episode Kate and Paul go to Manhattan in 1799 to analyze the curious circumstances of the death of a newlywed woman. In this first part of a two-part story, we learn about boarding houses and how culture and society played a part in this case.
Sources:
“Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks” (Evans Early American Imprint Collection)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N28782.0001.001
“People v. Levi Weeks, 1800” (Historical Society of the New York Courts)
https://history.nycourts.gov/case/people-v-weeks/
“A Tale of Two Murders: The Manhattan Well Case as Source Material for Charles Brockden Brown's ‘The Trials of Arden’" by Scott Slawinski (Early American Literature Vol. 44 No 2) 2009.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27750131
“At SoHo Eatery, a Historic Haunt” by Nick Carr (Wall Street Journal) 2011.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204644504576651252000172140
“The Manhattan Well Mystery” (Murder by Gaslight) December 12, 2010.
http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/12/manhattan-well-mystery.html
“The Manhattan Well Murder Trial” (The History Guy) 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNaR1CyFA8
“The Original ‘Dream Team’” by Doris Lane (Crime Magazine)